Jeeves in the Offing. [First UK Edition. Second Issue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE SECOND ISSUE
by WODEHOUSE P. G
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Herbert Jenkins,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, Second Issue; pale terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. The eighth Bertie/Jeeves novel. Second Issue, with corrected half-title. The US edition, titled 'How Right you are, Jeeves', appeared in the previous year. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Jasen 82a; McIlvaine A83b.
Synopsis
Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on April 4 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. , New York, under the title How Right You Are, Jeeves, and in the United Kingdom on August 12 1960 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43902
- Title
- Jeeves in the Offing. [First UK Edition. Second Issue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE SECOND ISSUE
- Author
- WODEHOUSE P. G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins,
- Date Published
- [1960]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, wodehouse, pg wodehouse, pelham grenville wodehouse, bertie wooster, jeeves
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